Duval County FlArchives Biographies.....McIlvaine, Eugene T. May 23, 1886 - 
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Source: Vol. II  pg.89  The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923
Author: History of Florida, Past and Present 

        EUGENE THOMAS McILVAINE. Recognition as a lawyer of solid attainments 
has come to EUGENE THOMAS McILVAINE of Jacksonville, his clientage has steadily 
grown, and his professional life has become one of constant employment. He and 
his partner, WILLIAM C. JOHNSON, are real-estate and corporation lawyers, and 
the preparation of cases is marked by the most painstaking attention to detail 
and exhaustive examination of authorities. In trials Mr. McIlvaine is fair and 
candid with the court, presenting no theories or propositions which he does not 
believe to be sound, but supports his contentions with force, courage and 
tenacity. Mr. McIlvaine was born at Cedar Keys, Florida, May 23, 1886, a son of 
VICTOR B. and BARBARA (COLLIER) McILVAINE, and grandson of ROBERT HUNTER and 
MARGARET JANE (BLEDSAE) McILVAINE. ROBERT H. McILVAINE was born in Delaware, 
April 23, 1820, and died February 14, 1889, while his wife, born March 12, 
1824, died April 21, 1905. ROBERT H. McILVAINE was one of the very prominent
early settlers of Cedar Keys.
	VICTOR B. McILVAINE was in the wholesale fish business at Tampa for 
twenty-five years, and from there moved to Miami, Florida, and conducted a 
similar business. For many years he was an elder of the First Presbyterian 
Church at Tampa, and was active in religious work. He maintained membership 
with the Knights of Pythias. In politics he was a democrat. He was born at 
Cedar Keys, Florida, August 28, 1856, and died October 3, 1912. His first wife, 
who was the mother of Attorney McIlvaine, died in 1887, having born her husband 
two children, of whom EUGENE T. McILVAINE, is the sole survivor, the elder one 
having died in infancy. In 1890 VICTOR B. McILVAINE married CARLYN M. TAYLOR,
and they had six children, three of whom are now living: RUTH, MYRA and VICTOR.
	Growing up at Tampa, EUGENE THOMAS McILVAINE attended its public
schools, Gordon Military Institute, from which he was graduated in 1902, and
took his academic course in the John B. Stetson University, from which he was
graduated in 1904. He then took his legal training at Washington and Lee
University, Lexington, Virginia, from which he was graduated in 1908. For a
year he was engaged in practice at Tampa, and then, in 1909, came to
Jacksonville and formed his present partnership with Mr. Johnson, the firm name
being Johnson & McIlvaine. This connection is still maintained, the two having
found it both pleasant and profitable. Mr. McIlvaine belongs to the Duval
County Bar Association. He is a democrat in political belief. The Presbyterian
Church holds his membership.
	On September 30, 1915, Mr. McIlvaine married NEVA EDMUNDSON, and they
have three children: EUGENE THOMAS, LEE E. and HELEN ELIZABETH. While he has
never entered public life, Mr. McIlvaine has a high conception of civic duty,
and is ever ready to aid in promulgating and carrying to a successful
termination those projects which he deems necessary for the welfare of the city
and for the protection of its interest. Such men as he are a valuable asset to
any community or profession, and his associates esteem him accordingly.


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